Category: Graphic Design

By trade I am a graphic designer, and I’m pretty good at it too. I’ll post things here about the projects I’m working on and how I solve problems as they arise. It won’t be full blown tutorials, and I will sometimes use industry terms. . . hopefully it won’t be too boring.

The trick of Photoshop is to make it look like you didn’t do anything. I was working on a catalog cover and I wanted to use an image of a dove holding an olive branch as the main image. Most of the images I found were just so-so—most didn’t have a dove with a wide […]

Several months ago I was recruited, by my editor friend Karen, to work on a book project. Originally, I was just recruited to design the cover (Karen was doing the interior). Actually, originally, I just recruited to consult on exporting a Word document to an epub file. I tested some things out and never got […]